Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous